Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Landau report part two: the attempts to deliver the Nutcrackers

“Make sure you take everything with you! Don’t leave anything behind!”. The lady who shouted this was probably something like the thirteenth attempt on our part to gift random strangers in Landau with a Nutcracker.…

The Nutcracker is part of

Find the same part 2 – beauty ideals and flawlessness on the streets of Berlin (and Leipzig)

Continuing my series on beauty images (and ideals) in Berlin (and Leipzig).
It is not always about the sexualization and objectification (although that is unfortunately the rule it seems), you mostly see women immobile, staring into space, looking startled or…

Landau report part one: volunteering, art and the private sector

I spent five days in Landau (Pfalz), to attend the European Citizens Convention on volunteering. My presence at such event was mainly justified to exhibit “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable…“, which represented a more critical take on the issue

Shaping CITYzenship – Photos!

A while ago I wrote about this project I was involved in, which revolved around the city of Berlin, with a focus on the changing nature of the city and how media campaigns have shaped my understanding (in a way…

Find the same – beauty ideals and flawlessness on the streets of Berlin

Killing Us Softly 4 Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo.
In her documentary, Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne says, referring to the ideal of absolutely flawless beauty with which we are continually fed by ads:

“She never …

Welcome me to active feminism

For those of you who know me and follow me on twitter, it is quite obvious that I am passionate about feminism. Today, as I did my daily reading on Sociological images, I found this

“Men and women …

Portraits of self-sufficiency: Graffiti Research Lab Germany

This time we had a short chat with Mirae Rosner and Jesse Scott, the two initiators of the German cell of Graffiti Research Lab. If you’re curious, read on.…
Sharing knowledge and tools is at the very core of Graffiti

Portraits of self-sufficiency

Sharing knowledge and skills can mean many different things: it can be a way out of a system based on products that are designed and made under precarious economic and social conditions, it can mean having the chance to contribute…

Portraits of self-sufficiency: SDW Neukölln

This is the first interview for the series “Portraits of self-sufficiency“, which we are very happy to be launching today. I am also very happy that this is going to be a collaborative project, with great photographer Gabriele …

Decide what goes on the billboard

I was walking through Alexanderplatz in the late afternoon, when I saw a group of people drawing on what is normally a panel reserved for advertisement. So I parked my bicycle and talked to them.
It turns out, this was…

Of course I will do it for free – Photographer

UPDATE: there is a new image below.
Inspired by past and always recurring proposals of the “but we will give you exposure”-type, I thought I had no more words. However, it turns out I do.
So, random brand or whatever…

Anti-nuclear energy demonstration in Berlin: let’s fight the system, just not the sexist part of it


On Saturday 18th, roughly 100.000 gathered and marched… from Hauptbahnhof (Berlin central station) to the Reichstag, to show their opposition to the government unwillingness to completely abandon nuclear energy.
I was there, as you can imagine, and besides walking alongside